František Tůma. Andreas Scholl, Czech Ensemble Baroque / Roman Válek
AP340 (Aparté, CD)
FIRST RELEASE (17 November 2023)
Playing time: 48'
Tracks: 19
Booklet pages: 30
℗ 2023 Aparté / Little Tribeca - Czech Ensemble Baroque
© 2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca
Main country of recording: Czech Republic
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of František Tůma. Andreas Scholl, Czech Ensemble Baroque / Roman Válek published on 30 December 2023
Andreas Scholl, countertenor
Romana Kružíková, soprano
Ondřej Holub, tenor
Jiří Miroslav Procházka, bass
Czech Ensemble Baroque
Tereza Válková, choirmaster
Roman Válek, conductor
František Tůma (1704-1774):
Motetto de S Joanne Baptista (1743)
1 Coro. Audite insulæ
2 Aria. Non fuit vasti spatium
3 Coro. Alleluia
Motettum de tempore (1750)
4 Recitativo. Vilescit mihi mundus
5 Aria. O ter beatum cor
6 Recitativo. Inter tanta pericla
7 Aria da capo. O vera sincera
Sinfonia a quattro
8 Allegro assai
9 Andante
10 Allegro
Motetto per ogni Tempo (1746)
11 Recitativo. Bonum est confiteri Domino
12 Aria. Quam magnificata
13 Recitativo. Quia delectasti me
14 Aria. Amen
Dixit Dominus (1743)
15 Dixit Dominus
16 Tecum principium
17 Juravit Dominus
18 De torrente in via bibet
19 Gloria
Andreas Scholl returns to his repertoire of choice, introducing us to the splendid works of František Tůma - a little-known Bohemian composer who was a prominent musical figure in the eighteenth century. Together with the Czech Baroque Ensemble and their conductor Roman Válek, specialists in this repertoire, the counter-tenor here performs several of his emblematic motets and cantatas. In this atmosphere of the twilight of the Baroque, Andreas Scholl's voice attains its fullness, embracing Tůma's splendid invention and intensity of expression - a marvellous musical encounter that reaches its apex in the splendid arias of the Motettum de tempore, the Motetto per ogni Tempo or in the austere but absolute beauty of the chorus Juravit Dominus.
Recorded 2-6 June 2023 at Kostel svatého Michala, Znojmo, Czechia.